Use this example of a persuasive essay to dissect and identify the parts of this genre.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

This mentor text can support fifth graders as they learn good technique for argument essay writing.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

While playing this fun memory game, students will find a piece of evidence that supports each claim.

This worksheet helps underscore the importance of sequencing as students learn to structure their writing.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an persuasive essay with this engaging activity.

Introduce students to this graphic organizer to help them outline their ideas for an essay of their own.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an informative essay with this engaging problem-solving activity.

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Introduce your students to the five parts of an effective argument.

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

There are a lot of parts to a letter. This checklist helps students ensure they have a complete and polished piece of correspondence. It includes the main parts of a letter; conventions; format; and tips for how to choose a closing.

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

Students will craft their own essay using this graphic organizer as a helpful way to get started.

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

Students will sort sentences into topics and then write paragraphs to help them understand the organizational structure of writing.

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

In this creative writing Halloween prompt, young writers will use their imaginations to dream up their very own Halloween potion.

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.